It’s time to write Book 3*, which means neologisms thread... 2 neo-boogaloo! For this book the neologisms are words/terms/phrases that were not in use in 2009, when the third book takes place. *it has a title but I can’t share it because it hasn’t been OK'd by the publisher yet!pic.twitter.com/vrJ2TglsNu
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Finally, this is just a thread about neologisms for when, as I'm writing, I sometimes include a term & then realize "oh wait they didn't say that back then did they?" It’s just for fun, so there’s no need to be contrarian about it. Okay? Okay. today's entry: "heckin'"
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today's entry: "cultural appropriation"* *while yes there was some light use in academia and the broad concept existed, the term itself would not become a mainstream household term until a few years later
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*Mandela Effecting myself into believing that there were t-shirts that said "Yeet the Ayatollah" in the 80s*
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